Quoting Torgeir Veimo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Sebastien Geffroy wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > It seems to me that last version is quicker than others.
> > I use VESA driver with a NVidia Geforce 2 GO and a pentium3 1Ghz.
> 
> Would it technically be possible to use directFB with xfree86 XAA gfx
> drivers?

Theoretically yes, the XFree driver modules could be loaded by a
generic DirectFB driver that makes the XFree drivers think they
run in X. But the compatibility layer would be very big and without
a native framebuffer driver it would have to use /dev/mem (like XFree)
to access the board. Besides that XAA only provides a few DirectFB
operations like solid rectangles or screen-to-screen blits. I don't know
much about XAAs offscreen capabilities, but having acceleration only in
the front buffer of the primary layer (i.e. at the beginning of the
framebuffer) wouldn't be sufficient.

I would spend more time on thinking how DRI could be integrated without
too much patching/porting efforts when newer versions of drivers or
DRI itself appear.

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  Denis Oliver Kropp

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